Togusa lets his hand slide off, and he silently listens, lets Dante look away from him. As if he has something to be ashamed of in the memories of another man, another life?

"He knew what the power was, he knew what the cost was, to himself," Togusa has to clarify. The specifics are confusing, just as monstrous as he expected, but the feelings behind them are understandable.

Dante is scared he- a bolt of absolute fear jolts through Togusa when he realizes it. The other Dante made his choices out of a self-sacrificial drive, but what Dante is saying there at the end is out and out suicidality. The man fought the unspeakable for the sake of a friend, and it killed him, and if this goes on, Dante is going to be afraid to make attachments to people, if he isn't already, because he thinks it's capable of literally killing him.

Choose. Your. Next. Words. Carefully. Togusa.

"Even when it's more painful to hang on and fight, I believe you'll do it. He's got the memories of fighting. You don't have to throw yourself into this fight," a gesture at the room around them, Retrospec's own headquarters, definitely a fight, "just to try to make up for it."

"But I know there's also no chance you're backing away. So. Keep talking to your friends. If you're so worried about what you'd do on your own."